Security Officers and Policing

Dr Mark Button is a Principal Lecturer and Associate Head (Curriculum) at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK. Mark is an expert on private policing and security and has written extensively on these subjects.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Power, Authority and the Security Officer: Under-researched and Under-estimated?; Chapter 2 Researching Security Officers; Chapter 3 The Legal Tools of Security Officers in England and Wales; Chapter 4 Nodes of Governance: Pleasure Southquay and Armed Industries; Chapter 5 ‘Knowledge is Power?’: Security Officers’ Understanding of their Legal Tools; Chapter 6 Universal Legal Tools: Consent, Coercion and Commonsense; Chapter 7 Select Legal Tools: Compliance, Consent and Commonsense; Chapter 8 Occupational Hazards: Too Many Masters, Isolation and Abuse; Chapter 9 ‘I’m a Security Guard Get Me Out of Here!’ The Cultural Characteristics of Private Security Officers; Chapter 10 ‘Big Fish in Little Ponds’, Security Officers and the Policing of Private and Hybrid Space;